to many redirects

[richard]

I wonder if this issue has effectively killed the forum (and mortally wounded PBP).

it certainly has not interfered with online gambling, dodgy black-market drugs and girlie pic spammers.
but it does make forum access from my android things nonfunctional and atpia

[Ioannis]

Regarding the spam we try asap to zap them. Unfortunately this specific problem is beyond my knowledge and skills.

As Richard marked, never the drugs, porn or lighter spam activities have problems sneaking in forums, mails sites... Nasty bastards....

Ioannis

[mpgmike]

At least the porn spam so far has just been links and not embedded images -- at least what I've zapped.

[Ioannis]

I think this is the case. Fortunatlely just links so far.

Hope the problem with the redirects will not spread to other browsers too.

Ioannis

[retepsnikrep]

I can also confirm the forum still does not work with Chrome.

I have to use Edge to use this site.

[Jerson]

I use chromium on Linux and face no problems till now. Occasionally, I have the odd problem of being unable to zap spammers as the thread shows but will not be zapped. Then, I clear cache, reload the page and the zapping happens.

I am suspecting a browser hijack has got installed on the affected machines.

[richard]

the rot is setting in, edge is now throwing the odd to many redirects too.

[lester]

OK, that did not work !

I have re instated CDN

Im really surprised it had such a detrimental effect.

At present i'm at a loss as to how to resolve this issue without making some major chnages to the server / site.

I'm seeing many people with the same issue. The redirect number is hard coded into the browser - i think.

Our site does not - should not - redirect more than 1 time.

It seems there is a loop being initiated somewhere. but at present i cannot see where.

I cannot reproduce the issue on any machine with any browser !

[lester]

OK, Im going to turn off CDN temporarily to see if that affects the issue

pleasev let me know if you see any improvement

[Ioannis]

Now Chrome says for both picabsic.co.uk and dt.picbasic.co.uk:

This site can’t be reached
www.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT



This site can’t be reached
dt.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

On Edge I can access dt.picbasic.co.uk but not forum:

Hmmm… can't reach this page
www.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

[Ioannis]

On Opera no delays are noted and have no firefox here to test.

Ioannis

[Ioannis]

Now also dt.picbasic .co.uk is lost.

Ioannis

[tumbleweed]

I'm unable to get at either site using Firefox now.

Had to use IE11